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Posted by Pen on March 4, 2008, 1:35 pm
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Haines Brown wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad X61s and went to install a new operating system
> (sidux). I tried to create an initial 1Mb partition, before partitioning
> the drive, but my utility (cfdisk) wouldn't allow me to do it, and so I
> went ahead and deleted the Vista partitions and created my own.
>
> When I rebooted, I found that the grub bootloader wouldn't work. Initial
> grub error was 25, which was not a problem with grub menu.lst (which
> worked before), but access to HD, which I presume is because linux needs
> to put kernel BIOS into some initial space (although isn't the first
> unformated partition such a space)?
>
> If I delete partitions, would that have deleted the MBR as well?
>
> I tried to boot again, and this time got error 16, which I gather tells
> me there's no MBR. So my problem is either to create some space at the
> beginning of the drive or somehow to boot a system without the benefit
> of an optical drive (which the X61s lacks).
>
> I have an old NT installation disk. Can I copy some utilities from it
> to a USB that would allow me to create a MBR space on the disk, perhaps
> by deleting the partitions first? I have also have old DOS installation
> disks; could I do something like that with them? Or OS/2 Warp, for that
> matter. Or download a utility that can be put on the USB-stick?
>
Fdisk /mbr will restore the master boot record on the 1st hard disk.
For a fuller explanation see here.
http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm
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